For fans of Queens of the Stone Age, The Wildhearts, Blink 182, and featuring special guests Ally Dickaty (The Virginmarys) and Jesse Hughes (The Eagles of Death Metal), Nuneaton's Dig Lazarus release their new album, 'Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time', on Friday 15th October, that captures the journey of teenage wannabes finding their voice through balls-out Rock n’ Roll, and one of their tracks, 'Joker', is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Adarrak, Seething Akira, EMT, Byron Nemeth Group and Brainstorm.

Probably the most surreal interview of the 2017 Ramblin' Man Fair weekend, took place with Liverpool's Xander And The Peace Pirates, so listen to today's Podcast Of The Day where the former Cavern residents discuss their Soul, Blues and Rock influences plus their debut album '11:11'. Unbelievably, for some reason, this really great bunch of guys did not have access to the media area and we ended up doing the interview outside with Keith Xander (lead guitar/vocals, Stuart Xander (guitars), Mike Gay (slide guitar, guitar/vocals), Joel Goldberg (bass) and Adam Goldberg (drums) - where we found out that they had already played The Rising Stage despite the RMF itinerary saying it was Sunday. Would you also believe that the guys follow up interview was with Nicky Horne, no less, and our valiant attempt to locate Nicky in the media area for XATPP was unfortunately unsuccessful (you couldn't make it up).

Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and producer, Scott Von Ryper, is already known for being a founding member of the Australian duo The Black Ryder, and a touring member of the iconic Scottish group The Jesus and Mary Chain, but now he is set to release his debut solo album, 'Dream State Treasure', in October via tran-si-ent, and the first track from the album, ‘The Devil’s Son’, is today's Video Of The Day. ‘Dream State Treasure’ was primarily recorded and mixed in Von Ryper’s home studio between 2018 - 2020, with Scott playing most of the instruments, with additional input from Los Angeles engineer Norm Block, who also played drums on the record. Von Ryper will also be touring Europe in November with The Jesus And Mary Chain.

"Hearing the music again after many decades was so enjoyable, and, more to the point, hearing live music again so satisfying. For the performers themselves we can only guess at the emotional wreckage of the past year or so, and hope that the projected world tour over the next two years can indeed go ahead." Today we have Stuart Law's complete take below on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, that took place at London's Royal Festival Hall last Friday, plus check out our 1973 Mike Oldfield BBC Video Of The Day that complement's Stuart's review.

This week's Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day is an hour filled with IBBA Picks of The Month from Connor Selby, Bernie Marsden and GA-20, new releases from Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly, Big Daddy Wilson, Gabe Stillman and Starlite Campbell Band, a preview of Celebration of UK Blues on Saturday 18th September with Stevie Watts Organ Trio featuring Alice Armstrong, When Rivers Meet and Kyla Brox and her band, plus tracks from Bad Day Blues Band (pictured) and Delta Fuse, ahead of their double bill tonight at The Tuesday Night Music Club at the Comrades Club in Coulsdon tonight.

This Saturday 21st August from 3pm, the second Chelsea Blues, Rhythm and Rock Festival takes place at London's Under The Bridge, and today's six of the best 'Chelsea Blues Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day are taken from all of the band's performing, namelyco-headliner's Jo Harman and Gerry McAvoy's Band Of Friends, Connor Selby, Malcolm Bruce, Southbound and Brave Rival.

Nottingham-based Grunge band, Just A Ride, is on a mission to revive the spirit of the early 90s Alternative Rock scene that burst out of Seattle and influenced a generation, and the four-piece explore their Punk and Post-Hardcore influences with another thumping, riff-driven rock anthem, 'Start Over', their brand new forthcoming single, that you can catch live here at https://www.youtube.com/c/justaride tonight at 7pm BST, and which is also one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Evoking Winds, Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell, Immortal Guardian, Richard Townend & The Mighty Bosscats and Bjarte K. Helland.

Award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years listening to, writing about, talking about, and promoting Rock music, with a particular interest in the Blues, and Pete's Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day featuring Robert Jon & The Wreck (pictured), Wily Bo Walker & ED Brayshaw, Vanessa Harbek, Eddie Martin, Chris Rand, Zed Mitchell, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Barbara Dennerlein plus many more.

"My reward for hiding away from Fat Boy Slim and looking after the kids, was to be allowed to venture up to the front on my own for a couple of bands I actually really wanted to see. The first of these was The Sherlocks, a youthful band from Barnsley who had embarked on a epic 10 hour drive to get to Dorset. A hard working band, who are now beginning to get their just rewards as they smashed their set." With a number of much needed festival reviews in our WRC pipeline, today we have Chris Bourlet's take on Camp Bestival, that took place at beautiful Lulworth Castle at the end of July/beginning of August weekend, plus check out our Vid Of The Day of The Selecter's 'Avenger's Theme', that gives you a feel of what we have all been missing festival-wise!

With 'A New Day' Festival taking place next weekend 20th to 22nd August at Mt Ephraim Gardens, Faversham, there's still a selection of tickets (weekend, day and camping) available to purchase here www.anewfestival.comand today's six of the best 'A New Day Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day is a reminder of some of the many great bands taking part, namely, Big River, The Sharpeez, Band Of Friends, Inglorious, The Mentulls and Mostly Autumn.

The Dead Daisies have announced their first UK Tour since 2018 this October/November, including London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Wednesday 10th November, featuring the newest member to the Daisies, Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame legend Glenn Hughes, and If that wasn’t enough, also joining the trek are special guests, The Quireboys, of whom, today's Video Of The Day of '7 O'Clock', is taken from their recently released anniversary edition of 'A Bit of What You Fancy'. Get ready for the first time to hear the Daisies perform songs off their chart-topping album 'Holy Round' and so much more. Indeed, get ready for a night of Rock you won’t forget ...

"What about the legend that is Tatler though? Well there's no doubting his enthusiasm as he hi-fived us down the front on the title track of two consecutive numbers from their 1980 debut album 'Lightening To The Nations', followed by 'The Prince', which demonstrated the early influence of Punk on Tatler's music - with the audience once again joining in or echoing Born Andersen on the chorus lines as they did with a few "wooooooaaaaah's" on the quieter, more sedate opening to 'The Heat Of The Night', another from 'Borrowed Time', before Tatler duly ratchet it up a gear with another awesome heavy guitar solo, although Rasmus was on the money for singling out Wilcox for praise at the end, for his unerring drumming." With Diamond Head on stage at Catton Park's Bloodstock today, this was part of our take on the band's gig at London's O2 Academy Islington in December 2017, and we had the pleasure of interviewing all-round nice guy Brian Tatler prior to the gig, which is today's Podcast Of The Day.